Princess S72

Twelve is the number for an afternoon aboard the Princess S72; six is the number once her three cabins are made up for the night. She was delivered in 2017 as an S72 and lies today in Italy.

Build and provenance

She is a sports motor yacht in GRP on a monohull, twenty-three metres and seventy-four feet, with a beam of 5.4 metres and a draft of 1.5 metres, proportions that favour speed over volume.

Layout and accommodation

Three cabins sleep six guests, with a crew of two aboard to run her. The living happens on deck: teak-laid decks run from the cockpit up to the flybridge, a wetbar with a built-in barbecue sits within reach of the helm seats, and a foredeck area is laid out for sunbathing rather than for extra seating below.

Performance and engineering

Two Caterpillar C32 A engines, rated at 1,622 horsepower apiece, give her a 24-knot cruise and a 35-knot top speed, the kind of figures that come from a planing hull built for pace rather than a slow, full-displacement cruise. Twin Seakeeper gyroscopic stabilisers hold her level once she is off the plane, and bow and stern thrusters bring her into a berth without drama.

Where she lies and how to see her

The Princess S72 lies in Italy. Boatcrowd arranges every viewing and is present for it, and once an offer is accepted we bring in the surveyor and set up the sea trial before the sale goes further.